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Monday, April 4, 2016

A to Z Challenge: Cookies And Other Baked Goods

Cookies and
other baked goods

Since Marmar
was born, I have had a not-so-hidden-need for baked goods. During Meghan’s stay
in the hospital, my only source of sustenance was primarily cookies, cinnamon
buns, brownies, and anything else that resembled a baked good from the
cafeteria. It was fantastic.

Side note:
Check out Peace-A-Pizza if you come to Baltimore. Their dessert café, Babas, is amazing! The BEST
chocolate chip cookies I have ever eaten.

Cookies can
also be a fun way to make meals easier for the kiddos. Depending on the size of
the cookie, we’ll either break it in half or quarters and put it on their plate
with lunch or dinner. The results are generally positive. The kids will of
course eat the cookie, many times it’s the first thing, but then they will
gravitate toward the other food items including their veggies. It’s almost like
it kick starts their meal with some satisfaction and the rest of their food
doesn’t seem so scary. Now, if they happen to ask for more cookie before
anything else, the response is always one of two things.

Either it’s,
“No,” or “You have to eat the rest of your food first.”

Granted,
this isn’t a perfect system, because we don’t give them cookies with every meal
(haha, that’s a joke), but it seems to work for this family. We think they do a
decent job at eating the healthy stuff, which is why we don’t mind giving them
the other good stuff from time to time.

My kids are grown up now but I wish I had thought of this cookie trick during those long excruciating meals of waiting for them to finish and sometimes even to just start :) Popping over from the AtoZchallenge.